The surname McFalls
A patronymic surname, carried by 2,433 people in the United States.
2 syllables Soundex M214
Origin
Variant of McFall, with the redundant patronymic suffix -s.
McFalls is a patronymic surname: formed from a father’s (or ancestor’s) given name.
Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How common it is
2010 US Census
There were 2,433 people named McFalls in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 126,899 Americans. That is up 2.6% since 2000, when the Census counted 2,371.
Who is named McFalls
Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census
90% of people named McFalls identified as white (not Hispanic), 6.1% as Black (not Hispanic) and 1.8% as two or more races.
- White (not Hispanic) 90%
- Black (not Hispanic) 6.1%
- Two or more races 1.8%
- Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.4%
- American Indian and Alaska Native 0.6%
- Asian and Pacific Islander 0.2%
Spellings and sound-alikes
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McFalls has the Soundex code M214, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code M214.
Questions
- Where does the surname McFalls come from?
- Variant of McFall, with the redundant patronymic suffix -s.
- How common is the surname McFalls?
- 2,433 people in the United States had the surname McFalls in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 126,899 Americans. It ranked 12,692nd of 162,253 surnames.
- What ethnicity is the surname McFalls?
- In the 2010 Census, 90% of people named McFalls identified as white (not Hispanic), and 6.1% as Black (not Hispanic).
- What type of surname is McFalls?
- McFalls is a patronymic surname, formed from a father’s (or ancestor’s) given name.
- Is the surname McFalls getting more or less common?
- More common. 2,371 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 2,433 in 2010, up 2.6%.